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jtb cb4502a584 Initial import of p5-Pod-POM.
This module converts POD documents into an object model format, known as
Pod Object Model (POM).  It builds a hierarchy of nodes, which represent
elements within each of the documents.

Submitted by Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> in PR #12640.
2001-04-16 17:40:41 +00:00
archivers Change BUILD_DEPENDS semantics: 2001-03-27 03:19:43 +00:00
audio Update libsidplay to 1.36.47 2001-04-14 10:34:29 +00:00
benchmarks revert previous change. f2c package has been fixed so that the autoconf 2001-04-15 02:20:05 +00:00
biology Change MAINTAINER section to packages@netbsd.org 2001-04-14 21:43:38 +00:00
cad Change MAINTAINER section to packages@netbsd.org 2001-04-14 21:43:38 +00:00
chat Add a CONFLICTS entry for blackened. 2001-04-12 10:35:41 +00:00
comms Replace >= dependency by - dependency, since the version number is too 2001-04-05 13:13:03 +00:00
converters Remove redundant index.html from HOMEPAGE url 2001-04-16 17:21:45 +00:00
cross Standardize patch file names. 2001-04-05 15:35:43 +00:00
databases <mysql/mysql.h> can be found in the mysql-client pkg: 2001-04-15 01:11:16 +00:00
devel This depends on Emacs. It doesn't install properly for XEmacs yet. 2001-04-16 15:32:27 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Move BUILD_USES_MSGFMT in DEPENDS block, mostly by removing empty 2001-04-02 20:06:11 +00:00
emulators We now check that /emul/linux/lib/ld.so.1 exists, and add a link from 2001-04-16 11:52:55 +00:00
finance Move BUILD_USES_MSGFMT in DEPENDS block, mostly by removing empty 2001-04-02 20:06:11 +00:00
fonts Move ghostscript-fonts from print to fonts. 2001-04-03 14:47:15 +00:00
games Update gnome-games to 1.4.0.1. Changes include tons of bugfixes, minor 2001-04-07 12:33:01 +00:00
graphics this pkg installs only a library (and headers etc.), no binary. 2001-04-14 23:09:46 +00:00
ham Not needed any more -- COMMENTs are in Makefiles now. 2001-02-16 15:52:49 +00:00
japanese add and enable texfamily/texfamily-share packages. 2001-04-14 16:44:12 +00:00
lang Fixed a mistake in the PLIST 2001-04-16 12:27:07 +00:00
licenses Remove some spaces at eol which made it weird to read in 80 columns. 2001-03-16 14:37:23 +00:00
mail Update "mutt-unstable" package to version "1.3.17.20010415i". A list of 2001-04-16 01:47:17 +00:00
math Use teTeX-[0-9]* in BUILD_DEPENDS as teTeX-* expands to a number of packages. 2001-04-16 15:43:55 +00:00
mbone Change BUILD_DEPENDS semantics: 2001-03-27 03:19:43 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update to new COMMENT style: COMMENT var in Makefile instead of pkg/COMMENT. 2001-02-17 17:52:59 +00:00
misc * Updated to latest stable release 1.4.2. 2001-04-16 14:41:01 +00:00
mk Invert new variable "LIBTOOL_REQD" analogous to "PKGTOOLS_REQD" for the 2001-04-16 00:55:37 +00:00
net put daemon binaries in libexec (not sbin) 2001-04-13 19:18:13 +00:00
news PREIX -> PREFIX, per PR 12587 2001-04-09 08:06:11 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Move cpp-like Makefile (.if exists()) statement after the inclusion of 2001-04-10 19:31:27 +00:00
pkgtools This pkg was broken after ECHO_CMD was removed. Patch to fix this 2001-04-13 18:13:34 +00:00
print don't list ELF shared lib links which don't exist on a sunos program. 2001-04-15 00:21:06 +00:00
security Don't try to build the "openssl" package if we got "openssl-0.96a" in the 2001-04-16 03:03:07 +00:00
shells Reorder include path to avoid build problems on systems with "gettext-lib" 2001-04-16 11:35:35 +00:00
sysutils nuke typo 2001-04-14 17:21:35 +00:00
templates Note how to report problems, or send updates or suggestions. 2001-03-19 17:44:30 +00:00
textproc Initial import of p5-Pod-POM. 2001-04-16 17:40:41 +00:00
time Update devtodo to 0.1.4: 2001-04-16 08:00:43 +00:00
wm Add and enable pwm 2001-04-15 20:39:31 +00:00
www Initial import of hiawatha-0.1, a barebones HTTP server with XML/XSLT 2001-04-15 02:56:38 +00:00
x11 fix shared library path. 2001-04-15 08:26:40 +00:00
Makefile echo -> ${ECHO} 2001-02-27 20:23:59 +00:00
Packages.txt document the possibility of a pre-build.local file for bulk builds 2001-04-14 19:20:47 +00:00
pkglocate Update the usage message to explain what each option letter does. 2001-04-03 09:28:32 +00:00
README No paragraph (picking nits). 2000-07-23 18:02:33 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.11 2000/07/23 18:02:33 fredb Exp $

Welcome to the NetBSD Packages Collection
=========================================

In brief, the NetBSD Packages Collection is a set of software
utilities and libraries which have been ported to NetBSD.

The packages collection software can retrieve the software from its
home site, assuming you are connected in some way to the Internet,
verify its integrity, apply any patches, configure the software for
NetBSD, and build it.  Any prerequisite software will also be built
and installed for you.  Installation and de-installation of software
is managed by the packaging utilities.

The packages collection is made into a tar_file every week: 

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz

and you can sup the pkgsrc tree using the `pkgsrc' name for the
collection.

The pkgsrc tree is laid out in various categories, and, within that,
the various packages themselves.

You need to have root privileges to install packages.  We are looking
at ways to remove this restriction.

+ To install a package on your system, you need to change into the
directory of the package, and type "make install".

+ If you've made a mistake, and decided that you don't want that
package on your system, then type "pkg_delete <pkg-name>", or "make
deinstall" while in the directory for the package.

+ To find out all the packages that you have installed on your system,
type "pkg_info".

+ To remove the work directory, type "make clean", and "make
clean-depends" will clean up any working directories for other
packages that are built in the process of making your package.

+ Optionally, you can periodically run "make clean" from the top
level pkgsrc directory. This will delete extracted and built files,
but will not affect the retreived source sets in pkgsrc/distfiles.

+ You can set variables to customise the behaviour (where packages are
installed, various options for individual packages etc), by setting
variables in /etc/mk.conf.  The pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example file
provides some examples for customisation.

The best way to find out what packages are in the collection is to
move to the top-level pkgsrc directory (this will usually be
/usr/pkgsrc), and type "make readme".  This will create a file called
README.html in the top-level pkgsrc directory, and also in all
category and package directories.  You can then see what packages are
available, along with a short (one-line) comment about the function of
the package, and a pointer to a fuller description, by using a browser
like lynx (see pkgsrc/www/lynx) or Mozilla (pkgsrc/www/mozilla), or
Communicator.  This is also available online as
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html.

Another way to find out what packages are in the collection is to
move to the top-level pkgsrc directory and type "make index". This
will create pkgsrc/INDEX which can be viewed via "make print-index | more".
You can also search for particular packages or keywords via
"make search key=<somekeyword>".

It is also possible to use the packaging software to install
pre-compiled binary packages by typing "pkg_add <URL-of-binary-pkg>". 
To see what binary packages are available, see:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<release>/<arch>/All/

where <release> is the NetBSD release, and <arch> is the hardware
architecture.

One limitation of using binary packages provided from ftp.netbsd.org
is that all mk.conf options were set to the defaults at compile time.
LOCALBASE, in particular, defaults to /usr/pkg, so non-X binaries
will be installed in /usr/pkg/bin, man pages will be installed in
/usr/pkg/man...

When a packaged tool has major compile time choices, such as support
for multiple graphic toolkit libraries, the different options may
be available as separate packages.

For more information on the packages collection see the file
Packages.txt where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.